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A CLASSIC, SATIRE, WAR AND TRAVEL: Thomas Hardy Illustrated; The Craziness of Thurber; How France Fell; Was ..

... CLASSIC, SATIRE, WAR AND TRAVEL Thomas Hardy Illustrated The Crazmess of Thurber How France Fell Was Columbus a Jew Another Book on Ballet -By Vernon Fane PRAISE be to whoever thought of celebrating the centenary of Thomas Hardy's birth by an edition of UNDER ...

Published: Saturday 18 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1782 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

The Bystander Bookshelf: Victorian Moss

... famous sportsman, is just dead he shot for a wager 1000 swallows and killed every one. What a guardsman Then there is Mrs. Thomas Hardy. She catches the note of fade the Obscure in this report of a conversation with her husband F. H. It 's twelve days since ...

Published: Wednesday 30 October 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1239 | Page: 23 | Tags: Review 

A BIOGRAPHY OF THE NAPOLEONIC MATRIARCH: Marjorie Coryn's Story of the Conqueror's Formidable Mother and How ..

... the past few decades one conspicuously empty place. Scott, Jane Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes, George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, these have remained unchallenged and recently Trollope has been admitted to their company. I quote from the opening lines ...

Published: Saturday 07 June 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1330 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

OUR BOOKSHELF RUPERT CROFT-COOKE: OUR REVIEWER'S CHOICE

... one that Ford worked in an age of giants. A periodical which could have in its first number original contributions from Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy, W. H. Hudson, H. G. Wells, R. B. Cunninghame Graham and W. H. Davies, seems ...

Published: Wednesday 26 May 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1394 | Page: 12 | Tags: Review 

LIGHT ON THE LIFE OF ADOLPHE'S AUTHOR Harold Nicolson's Biography of Benjamin Constant: A New Volume from John ..

... day enigmatic Battle of Britain flyer who was so brutally burned and survived his treatment only to die on another flight Thomas Hardy (one of his most successful and the simplest of his portraits) Max Plowman, master of imaginative friendship, and many ...

Published: Saturday 25 June 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1426 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

THE LATEST SELECTION OF NEW BOOK

... holiday places.- â– SSjiSiSSaBSS THOMAS HARDY'S BIRTHPLACE threatened by fire When approximately twenty acres of Bockhampton Heath, near Dorchester, caught alight recently, the fire threatened this picturesque house where Thomas Hardy was born in June 1840. Hard ...

Published: Saturday 07 July 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1387 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

THE EUROPE OF LAST WINTER

... off the trip- pered track where these things are as firmly marked, although perhaps not so widely known. The Dorset of Thomas Hardy may be a nostalgic memory to most of us, but I wonder how many visitors to Bournemouth and Swanage would know very much ...

Published: Saturday 21 November 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1549 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... Lectures have been IT e collected in a volume entitled Hardy the Novelist, discusses Hardy s philosophy chiefly in so far as it affects his art. But he remarks, in a moving final passage, that Hardy accepted Christian morality although his principles forbade ...

Published: Wednesday 19 May 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1813 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

PIERPONT MORGAN: LAST of the GRANDEES

... who have made a deep impression on him, together with notes about their lives. Mr. Mais' choice ranges from Beowulf to Thomas Hardy, with poets and prose writers about equally represented. The reader will no doubt find his critical faculties at full stretch ...

Published: Saturday 13 August 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2039 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS

... Steinlen literary society ot the close of the nineteenth century and of the years preceding the first World War. llenry James, Thomas Hardy, Maurice Hewlett, Arnold Bennett and Hugh Walpole were among the novelists Mrs. Belloc Lowndes knew well and she is excellent ...

Published: Wednesday 31 July 1946
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2051 | Page: 25 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... others do not. The heroine of All I Survey, chained to a dying husband and offered escape, is a real heroine the hero of Thomas Hardy's Meat an almost incredibly magnanimous hero. But the majority belong to the betwixt-and-between class. The best stories ...

Published: Wednesday 26 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2212 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... order that in the end they may be a little kind. Perhaps I should qualify that. Miss Hoult's cruelty is the cruelty that Thomas Hardy attributed to Destiny it is not personal except in so far as a novelist is personally responsible for his own conception ...

Published: Wednesday 27 August 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2249 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review